Since Maurice O'S has broached the theological aspects--which we make
considerable effort to steer altogether clear of on BG (PLEASE let's not do
that!)--of the question as to the meaning of MORFH, let me again call
attention to the archives--as I have done in the past when this issue in
all its complexity recurrently arises here--as well as the bibliographical
info on the Martin & Dodds volume of essays on the controversy over
interpretation of the Christ hymn:

>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:02:30 -0600
>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
>Subject: [b-greek] Philippians 2 (Christ-Hymn) in BG Archives
>
>Here are several items from the archives of B-Greek on the Christ-Hymn; I
>won't name the contributors and I won't even dare to assert that any
>definitive solutions were discovered for the problems but the
>problems--several of them, at least--DID get discussed.
>
>1/5/00 Phil 2:6 and ALL' hOMWS (Longish)
>12/20/99-12/24/99 Philippians 2:6
>10/26/98-10/27/98 Re: Meaning of Philippians 2:6- MORFH and hARPAGMOS
>3/8/97-3/9/97 RE: Phil 2:5-11
>6/25/96-7/0/96 Php 2:6
>
>At 1:00 PM -0600 10/27/98, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>>Without getting involved at present, since it has been mentioned that
>>there's plenty in the archives on the Christ Hymn, let me just point to
>>one lengthy and multi-dimensional thread on this passage that I initiated
>>way back when. It began with this:
>>
>> http://metalabs.unc.edu/bgreek/archives/greek-3/msg01080.html
>>
>>on Tuesday, June 13, 1995, and kept going for quite some time until the
>>dust was swirling. Lots of contributions from all sorts of viewpoints,
>>including my own "adoptionist" reading of the passage.
>
>And the relatively recent book with essays on all sides of the question(s)
>of interpretation of the Christ-Hymn of Philippians 2:
>
>Ralph P. Martin & Brian J. Dodd (eds.), _Where Christology Began: Essays on
>Philippians 2_ (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998)